Is there really such thing as a lucky charm? The hero of Nicholas Sparks's new novel believes he's found one in the form of a photograph of a smiling woman he's never met, but who he comes to believe holds the key to his destiny.

The story begins with a veteran's journey in search of a woman in a photo found in the dirt of the battlefront. With the photo like a lucky charm, he wins a lot in the card games and even survives the war where casualties are everyday events. Back

The story begins with a veteran's journey in search of a woman in a photo found in the dirt of the battlefront. With the photo like a lucky charm, he wins a lot in the card games and even survives the war where casualties are everyday events. Back home from the war in Iraq, after the accident during his vacation with his best friend Victor, who dies in the accident, he decides to set out on the travel, though he doesn't know what purpose of the trip would be. Perhaps, it's a good way to get away with the aftermaths of the war stuff. When it comes to war, nothing is more ridiculous and horrible than it. It will do no harm for him to look for a woman he never meets with no specific purpose. Then he makes it, meeting the woman and even falling in love with her. The revelation of the photo thing does bring to a climax, but nothing matters when true love surpasses everything else. This is a simple story but the author so good at turning ordinary into extraordinary that I couldn't stop drinking in the everyday activities of the characters.

It was longtime that I didn't read a "pink" novel so involving. I've loved so much these two characters, Beth (or better to call her Elisabeth ) and Logan Thibault, an ex soldier. The story starts from a photograph of a smiling woman found in Kuwait , during the war, and than you will be carried through the journey that Logan had to take to find out something about her and what will happen when he finally meets her.